Krish Srini <saptaratna@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

TNS Krishna presented a high voltage , powerpacked concert at the Tyagaraja Vidwat Samajam on the 14th of May '08.

Starting with Saveri varnam (Sarasuda), he went on to Budham Aasryaami( Naatakurinji) .

The following song was Ninnuvina (Poorvi Kalyani) . Krishna gave a raga rendition that left no unexplored territories in the raga. The raga elaboration was full of all kinds of combinations that is possible in Poorvi Kalyani. True to tradition he did a karvai nyasam for about 5-7 mins with madhyama,gandhara and rishaba, in the nadaswara bani. Ninnuvina was rendered well with power packed swara renditions at Ninnuvina.

Immediately that followed suit was Sankarabharanam( Endukku Peddala), another heavy weight, which was elaborated well with also a sruti bedham to Todi and back to the main raga.The highlight in this item was the swara rendition and the neraval. Krishna kept the basic theme of the swara ending as 'snd, spm sm(g = veda). With this basic mapping he explored myriad possibiliuties of laya variations and crowned the sentence beautifully.

Two heavyweights one after the other, did not leave even a note of strain on the singer and he went on  to render the Tillana in Basant Bahar(composed by TNS), with as much vigour and verve as in the beginning.

Shertalai Sivakumar on the violin, matched Krishna's with swara for swara ,as also B.Sivaraman on the mridangam and Sree Sundar Kumar on the Khanjira, who proved more than a match to the singer. On the whole it was a vidwat presentation, with no slow dull moment .

Had the amplification been a little more toned , the whole listening experience could have been unmatched.

Krishna has imbibed his father's gene so well that one is able to see his father in him, but at the same time he has a mind of his own and does not appear to be an imitation.